“ The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest t… William Hazlitt
“ Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no be… William Hazlitt
“ The old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence! William Hazlitt
“ You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. William Hazlitt
“ I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me… William Hazlitt
“ Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of joy and hope: it speaks with a thousand tongues to the heart: it waves its mighty… William Hazlitt
“ The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves. William Hazlitt
“ A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. William Hazlitt
